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With 106 men ready to hurl into the fray, many of them veterans from last year's undefeated victory aggregation, prospects look bright today for Coach Anderson, who is reputed to have built up a powerful offensive attack in the last week. Despite the temporary set-back caused by lack of funds, contributions from friendly alumni have enabled Anderson to field a complete squad, and Harvard hopes run high for a victory over the Bengals today
Captain John Dorman is out of the fray with an impending appendectomy. Leon Maheimer, dependable outside right and money player, is disabled by a dislocated collarbone sustained in practice on Thursday. In the places of these injured men, Robert W. Scott, Jr. '38 makes his first start of the season at halfback, while Sydney T. Dawson, Jr. '26, regular substitute for Manheimer, takes up his burden on the forward line...
...rest of the third period the teams sawed back and forth, each one intercepting several passes. In the fourth period the Winthrop break came when Johnson shook off his trailers and crossed standing up after a 30-yard trip. The final score came in the closing minutes of the fray when Tex Kelley intercepted one of the Deacons passes and behind perfectly formed interference made the last touchdown of the afternoon...
...Dunster-Lowell fray went on for four periods with no one being able to cross either goal line. The Dunster-Lowell is the one House game which has become coated over with a fine patina of tradition. Each team went out to give its all but the efforts of both were nullified and the football that goes to the winning team will have to be given in duplicate this year...
Meanwhile, the "River of Doubt" had become a great popular joke in the U. S. First a noisy controversy arose as to whether such a river actually existed. The newspapers jumped into the fray. Cartoons appeared featuring a burly figure with buck teeth and thick-lensed glasses, and a nebulous torrent. Editorials were written on both sides of the quarrel. The "River of Doubt" became a household phrase and the country had a grand time...